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candicans, Pers. White. P. 2 3 cm. plane or subdepr. umbiL 

 with adpressed silkiness, shining white when dry; g. adnate then 

 decur. crowded ; s. 3 5 cm. subfistulose, cartilaginous, shining ; sp. 

 56 x 4. 



dealbata, Sow. White. P. 2 3 cm. plane then upturned and 

 wavy, glabrous, rather shining ; g. adnate, crowded, white ; s. 2 3 cm. 

 entirely fibrous, thin, equal, stuffed ; sp. 4 5 x 2 '5. 



gallinacea, Scop. White, taste acrid. P. depr. even, dry, opaque ; 

 g. crowded, narrow ; s. 2 3 cm. equal, even, solid ; sp. . 



Differs from C. dealbata in dingy white, opaque p. and acrid 

 taste. 



* * DIFFORMES. Pilens fleshy at the disc, margin thin, 

 umb. at first, then exp. depr. and irregular. 



decastes, Fr. Clustered. P. 10 25 cm. wavy, subumb. glabrous, 

 uniformly dingy brown or livid, then pale ; g. crowded, wavy, white ; 

 s. 9 16 cm. long, solid, glabrous, white, apex pruiuose ; sp. globose, 



4r 5. 



subdecastes, Cke. and Mass. Clustered. P. 3 5 cm. convex, 

 obtuse, ochre, paler towards lobed margin ; g. crowded, white ; s. 

 8 12 cm. fibrillose, whitish ; sp. globose, 4 5. 



ampla, Pers. P. 7 12 cm. convex then exp. wavy, sooty then 

 livid, even ; g. broad, smoky then dingy white; s. 9 14 cm. sub- 

 cartilaginous, naked, white, apex somewhat downy ; sp. - . 



[molybdina, Bull. P. camp. exp. umb. glabrous, sooty, disc livid 

 rufous, then pale; g. horn colour then pallid; s. stout, fibrillosely 

 striate, mealy squamulose upwards, pallid. 



[coffeata, Fr. P. brownish fawn then sooty grey, fawn colour and 

 shining when dry, virgate or spotted ; g. decur. dingy white, as is also 

 the glabrous s. 



aggregata, Schaeff. Tufted. P. 5 9 cm. wavy, greyish or reddish 

 yellow, then pale, silkily virgate ; g. yellowish flesh colour ; s 7 10 cm. 

 fibrillose, narrowed below and often grown together at base; sp. 



[hortensis, Pers. Caespitose, elastic. P. exp. obsoletely umb. 

 sooty, blackish; g. decur. white then flesh-colour; s. hollow, rather 

 wavy. 



[tabescens, Scop. (=Coll. tabescens, Fr.). P. conico-campan. exp. 

 umb. depr. round umbo, tawny honey-colour, or tawny-brown, disc 

 scaly ; g. decur. pallid then pinkish tan ; s. fibrillosely scaly, pallid or 

 lurid yellow, elongated ; sp. 8 10 x 5 7. 



Closely resembling Armillaria mellea, but no ring on stem. 



[anapacta, Pers. P. depr. wavy, brown, edge incurved ; g. broad, 

 dingy tan ; s. narrowed below, pallid. 



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